Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. I...t has potency which the world does not yet know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession. It comes only by the ...grace of God. It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker. You must be born into the family of the Walkers. Ambulator nascitur, non fit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings or ...die. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging ...toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »